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b'Pornography has existed all over the world for all recorded time, and now porn websites are visited by an estimated 60 million Americans every month. With each new technological advancement, porn soon follows, and each generation subsequently fears for our vulnerable women and our uncontrollable men. For this episode, we\\u2019ll spend most of our time in the 1970s, also known as the \\u201cGolden Age of Porn,\\u201d when America was introduced to Andy Warhol\\u2019s Blue Movie, Deep Throat, Playboy, and Hustler. We\\u2019ll explore the subsequent feminist and fundamentalist fallout and the war on porn in the 1980s, spurred on by a surprising gruesome advocate. Porn has long been charged with corrupting the youth as well as normalizing, glorifying, and even causing sexual violence. Today we ask the question: What does porn do to us, or more accurately, what can porn make us do?\\xa0\\n\\nAmerican Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith\\nProduced and edited by Clear Commo Studios\\nResearch and cowriting assisted by Riley Smith\\nCo-Produced by Miranda Zickler\\nShow art by Roache\\nVoice Acting by Will Rogers\\n\\nBecome a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly!\\nFollow American Hysteria on social media:\\nTwitter: @AmerHysteria\\nInstagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'